CONCOURSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concourse mean? 

• CONCOURSE (noun)
  The noun CONCOURSE has 3 senses:

1. a large gathering of people

2. a wide hallway in a building where people can walk

3. a coming together of people

  Familiarity information: CONCOURSE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCOURSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A large gathering of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

concourse; multitude; throng

Hypernyms ("concourse" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concourse"):

hive (a teeming multitude)

horde; host; legion (a vast multitude)

herd; ruck (a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wide hallway in a building where people can walk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("concourse" is a kind of...):

hall; hallway (an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A coming together of people

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

concourse; confluence

Hypernyms ("concourse" is a kind of...):

coming together; meeting; merging (the act of joining together as one)

 Context examples 

When we arrived at the hall we found a much greater concourse than I had expected.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His majesty took not the least notice of us, although our entrance was not without sufficient noise, by the concourse of all persons belonging to the court.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was not merely that his own fortunes were largely at stake, but it was the dreadful position in which he would stand before this immense concourse of people, many of whom had put their money upon his judgment, if he should find himself at the last moment with an impotent excuse instead of a champion to put before them.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Strange it was to see such a vast concourse of people, and then to look upon that broad, white, empty highway which wound away, bleak and deserted, until it narrowed itself to a bare streak against the distant uplands.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the morning before office hours, at noon when business was plenty and time scarce, at night under the face of the fogged city moon, by all lights and at all hours of solitude or concourse, the lawyer was to be found on his chosen post.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbours.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The great concourse of noblemen and famous soldiers, the national character of the contest, and the fact that this was a last trial of arms before what promised to be an arduous and bloody war, all united to make the event one of the most notable and brilliant that Bordeaux had ever seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I shall not trouble the reader with the difficulties I was under, by the help of certain paddles, which cost me ten days making, to get my boat to the royal port of Blefuscu, where a mighty concourse of people appeared upon my arrival, full of wonder at the sight of so prodigious a vessel.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)